SXSW Grows Its Biz Profile
Austin -- As "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone" opens South by Southwest Friday with a comic flourish, hundreds of bizzers -- including the fest's largest-ever buyer contingent -- begin the real SXSW t…
Jennie Punter
Hot Docs Reveals First Titles
TORONTO – Gus Holwerda's "The Unbelievers" (pictured), following scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss' crusade to trumpet the importance of science, and A.J. Schnack's "Caucus," a behind-the…
TIFF Kids Film Fest Unveils Slate
Canada's first 3D toonpic, "The Legend of Sarila," will open the 16th TIFF Kids Film Festival on April 9, the Toronto fest announced Tuesday.
'War Witch' Casts Spell at Canadian Screen Awards
Helmer-scribe Kim Nguyen's "War Witch" may have lost the foreign-language film Oscar to "Amour" but it found love at the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards gala Sunday, nabbing 10 trophies including pic…
Foreign TV Shoots Boost Ontario's Economy
TORONTO — U.S. series including NBCUniversal's "Hannibal" and "Defiance" and Netflix's "Hemlock Grove" are among skeins that helped boost Ontario's revenue from film and TV production to C$1.28 billio…
Drafthouse nabs North American rights to rockumentary
Drafthouse Films has nabbed North American rights to Jeff Howlett and Mark Covino's rockumentary "A Band Called Death" in advance of its screening at the South By Southwest film festival next month, t…
eOne Films reshapes Canuck team
David Reckziegel is to remain prexy of eOne Films North America, eOne Film topper Patrice Theroux confirmed Monday.
Cinedigm nabs 'Fruit Hunters' doc
Cinedigm has nabbed U.S. distribution rights for Yung Chang's docu "The Fruit Hunters" in advance of its Berlin bow, the National Board of Canada announced Wednesday.
Hot Docs to fete Blank
American documentary master Les Blank will receive Hot Docs' Outstanding Achievement award and a retrospective of his 50-year career at the fest, it was announced Tuesday.
Canadian Academy honors Loewy
Alliance Films co-founder and former CEO Victor Loewy is one of eight Canuck game-changers receiving the Canadian Screen Awards' first Academy Special Award, the Academy of Canadian Cinema…
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Domestic Film DAILY
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The Hangover Part III
The Hangover Part III
1Daily: $11.8M Cumulative: $11.8M Warner Brothers 1st in 1st week -
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness
2Daily: $8.0M Cumulative: $108.8M Paramount Pictures 2nd in 1st week -
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness
3Daily: $6.8M Cumulative: $108.8M Paramount Pictures 3rd in 1st week
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